Australian Opposition Dumps Trump-Style Return to Office Policy
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Australia’s center-right opposition made a rare policy backflip in the middle of an election campaign, abandoning a plan for a Trump-style crackdown on work from home provisions for government employees after it appeared to become politically damaging.
Opposition Leader Peter Dutton said the original policy position for the Liberal-National Coalition had been “wrong,” at a press conference in the southern city of Adelaide early Monday, adding that he apologized to Australians for suggesting it in the first place.